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  1. A.L. Bell
    1 July 2021 @ 9:23 pm

    My son seems to have something along the lines of a weird form of NDPH. I think some kind of distinction is useful, for now, because my son’s headache seems more like a foot cramp of the head than a migraine.

    He got the headaches all of a sudden, without ever having had a headache before.

    I’ve never heard of anyone in my family having a headache that couldn’t be cured by an aspirin. We have no chronic headaches of any kind, and my wife’s family has no headache problems.

    My son’s headaches spike a lot more than migraines seem to but don’t seem to be as paralyzing as migraines.

    My son actually tested positive for having had a virus that sounds as if it could cause a post-viral syndrome, and we’ve gone camping, live in an old house and have pets and could easily have had all sorts of bacterial, viral or fungal infections.

    When I go online, I don’t see evidence of anyone having done any respectable research on this condition.

    I don’t see evidence that anyone has done a bunch of CAT, MRI, fMRI or PET scans of people with NDPH and analyzed the scans in a systematic way. I saw what I think is a magna cisterna and lopsidedness on my son’s MRIs, but I can’t even really ask about that, because I immediately got shut down when the doctor realized I’d tried to look at the images, just because I’d looked at them. But I don’t see whether anyone has checked NDPH brains for asymmetry, magna cisternas or small arachnoid cysts. So, how can doctors call those incidentalomas when they haven’t even had an intern study scans for high school science fair projects?

    And why in this age of Family Tree DNA can’t researchers send fecal, ear and nose swabs from 30 people with migraine, 30 NDPH people, and 30 controls through gene sequencing systems, to compare and contrast?

    And why can’t someone create a packet of records for 50 people diagnosed with NDPH 20 years ago and see how their health trajectories compare with the trajectories for migraine people and controls? (Maybe the controls could be concussion patients.) Do the NDPH people look just like the migraine people and the controls, or are there differences? What’s up with life expectancy?

    Instead of seeing studies like that, all I see are studies comparing what NDPH and migraine people are like now and maybe over the course of a short period. That doesn’t seem like extensive enough research to come to any conclusions about the relationship between migraine and NDPH.

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